List of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons the Years and Main Characters - Wildsville Gallery List of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons the Years and Main Characters May 15, 2013 The Ruff Reddy Show (1957-1960) Main Characters The Huckleberry Hound Show (1958-1962) Main Characters The Quick Draw McGraw Show (1959-1961) Main Characters Quick Draw McGraw / El Kabong Baba Looey The Yogi Bear Show (1961-1962) Main Characters The Hanna-Barbera New Cartoon Series (1962) Main Characters Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har Touché Turtle and Dum Dum Wally Gator Peter Potamus and his Magic Flying Balloon (1964-1965) Main Characters The Secret Squirrel Show/The Atom Ant Show (1965-1967) Main Characters Frankenstein, Jr.

and the Impossibles (1966) Main Characters Space Ghost and Dino Boy (1966-1968) Main Characters Birdman and the Galaxy Trio (1967-1969) Main Characters Johnny Storm (The Human Torch,) Sue Storm-Richards (The Invisible Girl) Doctor Doom Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor (1967-1969) Main Characters The Banana Splits Adventure Hour (1968-1970) Main Characters Big Gruesome and Little Gruesome Professor Pat Pending Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly The Ant Hill Mob(Clyde, Danny, Kurby, Mac, Ring-A-Ding, Rug Bug Benny, and Willy) Luke and Blubber Bear Scooby-Doo and related spin-offs (1969-present) Other titles in series: The Scooby Doo Show (1976 – 1977) What’s New Scooby-Doo?

(2002 – 2005) The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (1976) The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries (1984) A Pup Named Scooby-Doo (1988/1991) The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo (1985) Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! (2006) The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972/ 1973) Scooby and Scrappy-Doo (1979 – 1984) The Scooby, Scrappy and Yabba Doo Show (1982-1983) The All-New Scooby and Scrappy-Doo Show (1983-1984) Main Characters Cartoon Creature - TV Tropes Cartoon Creature You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share "No! What ARE you kidses? Look at you! With those ears and those tails... That's not normal! I mean what ARE you?" — Dr.

Scratchensniff, Animaniacs , "What We Are" Nonhuman drawn or animated characters of ambiguous species. There are several cartoon characters who are certainly not human. However, they are also clearly not any species of readily identifiable animal either. Some of them appear to be Mix-and-Match Critters . They don't really have a species, they're just... cute . Not to be confused with Informed Species , where the character is supposed to be a specific animal, but doesn't look like that animal. If the character is clearly meant to be a (normally) inanimate object, then the trope is Animate Inanimate Object . One of the Sci-fi Channel's ads features a woman playing with her pet . Said petï¿½presumably extraterrestrialï¿½has a vaguely Chihuahua-like overall appearance, large batlike ears, huge expressive eyes, an extremely long striped tufted tail, and a long forked tongue that it uses to daintily touch the tongue of its owner. Anime and Manga Card Captor Sakura : Kerberos spends much of his time as a winged teddy bear like creature. His true form looks like a mane-less male lion with armor and wings.

He's a creation of Clow, so he may be the only one of his species, assuming he's not a lion. It's never made clear what exactly he is supposed to be. Plue from Rave Master /Groove Adventure Rave. He's something like a snowman crossed with a dog. The theme song identifies him as a "carrot-nosed" dog. You know it was thought up when the creators were high if even they don't know what he is. Well, not high. By Word of God , Plue was actually an old drawing of the manga's creator from when he was a kid. Rave was made out of desire to draw a shounen manga starring said creature. Even then, the creator can't remember if he intended to draw a dog or what. In Fairy Tail , from the same writer of Rave Master, Plue is the Canis Minor Zodiac summon. What this means is debatable, since nobody but himself and the summon system believes he's a dog, and he doesn't even trigger the caniphobia of Happy. Happy himself falls into this trope, being a blue-furred, tuft-tailed, flat-toothed, oft-bipedal winged cat.

Chiyo's dad in Azumanga Daioh , who looks like an elongated, vaguely anthropomorphic cat, most likely pulled from an in-show plush toy by Sakaki's cuteness-obsessed mind. Played with in Revolutionary Girl Utena , Chu-Chu the monkey resembles a cartoon mouse but seems otherwise like a regular monkey, so fans assume he's some kind of marmoset/tariser/lemur thing, despite not looking quite like that either. Utena rightly points out Chu-Chu as a name makes him sound too much like a mouse, due to that being the Japanese onomatopoeia for a mouse's squeaks. Viral the beastman in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann . While the Beastmen generals have much more recognisable Animal Motifs (gorilla, scorpion, peacock/owl, armadillo), he looks like a human with shark teeth and paws, or as Word of God describes him, "a shark with cat genetics" which may make him some sort of Mix and Match Critter . Many Digimon are clearly examples of this trope in action.

There's some who look like animals or plants ◊ Yusuke's spirit beast in YuYu Hakusho , Puu ◊ . Its adult form is a phoenix. Q-chan from Pet Shop of Horrors is some sort of rabbit-devil creature with a cream-coloured pear-shaped body and rabbit ears, little white horns, black bat wings, a black devil tail, and black duck feet. No-one ever really asks what he is. Q-chan may be loosely based on the wolpertinger, a Bavarian hybrid creature. Essentially, it looks like a bunny, but has wings and antlers. Ryo-Ohki from Tenchi Muyo! , when it's not a spaceship, looks like what some fans refer to as a "cabbit"; pretty much a lop-eared bunny with a cat's face. It's actually a crystal-blob creature/spaceship that assimilated a (dying)kitten. Later, she assimilates another crystal-blob creature with a humanoid form and gained the ability to turn into a Funny Animal version of herself in a child or adult form. Fuku in Tenchi Muyo!

GXP is essentially another model of Ryo-Oh-Ki with a built-in potential to take a humanoid form. Comic Books The Smurfs are close to being an Ur-Example . Eastern Animation Cheburashka from Russian cartoons, pictured above. He appears to be part teddy bear, part koala, and part monkey. Cheburashka is the name of his species they agreed on. Originally his name was translated into English as "Topple". Cheburashka, according to the book, is "a funny little creature, unknown to science, who lives in the tropical forest". Some people say that he is reminiscent of lorids. His true origin is that he's a flawed toy, hence the unconventional appearance. Hugo from the Danish film series Jungledyret Hugo . He is often described by fans to be a bear/koala-like thing like Cheburashka. Film The big-eared, fuzzy Mogwai from the Gremlins movies most closely resemble a small prosimian primate, like a bushbaby or tarsier, minus the tail(and stubby limbs). In the second film , Gizmo is tentatively identified as some sort of rodent by a pair of scientists.

Literature Many of The Moomins characters. Mercer Mayer's Little Critter . He looks a bit like a hedgehog or a hamster, but is technically just a "little critter". The "All-Purpose Pet" in the Norby the Robot series by Isaac Asimov . She is described as normally looking like a cat , but as her name suggests she is able to transform and adapt to any need , and she is said to be bioengineered with Smilodon genes. The main character of Jungledyret Hugo (which was originally a children's book, and then a movie) Live Action TV Several Muppets , most notably the "Anything" and "Whatnot" Muppets . There are also specific characters, like Scooter, Beauregard, and Gonzo the Great, who was revealed to be an alien in Muppets from Space . Gonzo was defined as a "Weirdo" in Muppet Babies , and a ".... whatever" in most of his other appearances.

In The Muppet Movie , Kermit described him as "sort of like a turkey, but not much." In Jim Henson 's early 1950s shows, all the puppets were fairly abstract. Even Kermit (one of his earliest characters) was only declared to be a frog in the mid-60s, and only consistently one following his role as Narrator of The Frog Prince in 1971. Sesame Street 's Anythings are kind of like cartoon humans. The Muppet Show 's Whatnots tended to look like Fraggles . Fraggles themselves, as well as Doozers and Gorgs. And all the other weird stuff that lives down there. Kamen Rider Amazon . He is... some sort of reptile. Mythology and religion The god Set in Egyptian Mythology has the head of an unknown and mysterious creature that resembles a composite of an aardvark, a donkey, and a jackal. Modern Egyptologists usually refer to it as the "Set animal", "Typhonic beast", or "she".

A few theorize that the head isn't an aardvark, but rather some species of gar or other pointy-faced carnivorous fish; whatever they are, they were the ones that ate Osiris' willie when Set cut him up and threw him in the Nile. It can't just be a fish, though, since statues show it as some sort of emaciated hyena-looking thing. However, according to one account he is apparently supposed to have head of a hippo and others say he has the head of a giraffe, though the latter was ruled out on the grounds that the Egyptians made the distinction between a giraffe and a donkey. Newspaper Comics from Popeye comics looks like a dog sized, yellow, spotted, ambiguous looking cat-thing with a big, lightbulb-looking nose. Meanwhile, the animated cartoons define him as some sort of dog. Pinball Time Fantasy is infamous for its psychedelic theme, centered around a green and yellow creature with spindly limbs, bulbous eyes, and a large snail-like shell on its head and back. Video Games There are a few of these in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door .

Most of the characters are recognizably some kind of established Mushroom Kingdom creature, but some, such as the Glitz Pit security guards, just look like bizarre anthropomorphic things. The Chao in Sonic the Hedgehog . Small blue creatures with teardrop shaped heads, a connection to an ancient deity, and the ability to evolve based on what animals are around them. . Lugia, a gigantic dragon-bird-monster-thing, has been stated to be this via Word of God . A lot of Fighting- and Psychic-type Pokemon don't have any particular basis beyond "humanoid". The Abra and Tyrogue families stand out. Some people say Klonoa is a cat. Others say he's a rabbit. Some people even call him a "cabbit". The only thing anyone can agree on is that he's adorable . He's not the only member of his species, though. There's also Grandpa, Balue, the King of Sorrow... Klonoa: Empire of Dreams gives us Emperor Jillius, who looks like some kind of fox or koala, and Bagoonote Not to be confused with Balue above, who appears to be some kind of reptile. The Unndergrounders in Mr.

Driller are some kind of round, blue creatures with small arms and feet, and huge eyes; there's no way to tell what the hell are those things. The hero of the Sega Saturn game Bug! . Besides being a Four-Legged Insect , he doesn't seem to be based off any real-life bug- he's a green bug with the head of a praying mantis, the body of a grasshopper, and the stinger of a bee. What are the " ghosts " in Pac-Man ? Are they living creatures made of flesh or ghosts? In the original game, one of the between-round cutscenes has a "ghost" catch and tear off one of the rounded bits at the bottom on a sharp point, implying it's a costume. "Ghosts" came into usage when the Atari 2600 Porting Disaster had them flicker (because there wasn't enough memory for more than one on the screen at a time), and later versions just blurred the line further. Many Monster Rancher characters fit the bill. Many are based off plants, inanimate objects, mythological creatures, and animals (albeit rather loosely with most examples).

Nobody can figure out what kind of animal Ardy Lightfoot is supposed to be, although "fox cat" is the best guess. The player characters and the babies in Offspring Fling! are only ever called 'forest creatures'. Yacopu from the Sunsoft game Trip World looks sort of like a rabbit, aside from being bipedal. His species is "Shabubu," whatever that is. Mr. Game & Watch definitely qualifies based on his portrayal in the Super Smash Bros. games, seeing that he is an anthropomorphic... something. And two-dimensional. In Super Mario Bros. , Yoshi is usually described as some kind of dinosaur, but other than sharing a basic body shape with dinos like raptors , Tyrannosaurus rex , and other carnosaurs; there's not much resemblance. They're also referred to as dragons sometimes but don't resemble any typical designs. The title character of Zool has vaguely insectlike facial features, which led to the widespread misconception that he was supposed to be an ant. "Gremlin" is his official species, which is more a publisher's self-reference than anything else . A few yokai from Yo-kai Watch are this.

Komasan and his brother Komajiro are officially komainu lion-dogs, but look like a mix of a cat and a panda, and Komajiro gets referred to as tiger-like in the English version of the video game. Webcomics The wildlife from Cloudscratcher . The Mows of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures . Not quite- they're actually based on Mab, a cat , specifically a "fae kitty" Species X from DNA . They look like humans except for being covered in grey hair, having very large ears which may be round or triangular, sharp teeth, and black noses, and sometimes a short fluffy tail. The author has not yet revealed what animal or animals they are based on although she has confirmed several things that they are not, although because Species X was genetically engineered, they likely have DNA from multiple animals. Sparklecare : Most characters are anthro animals, but with a few weird characteristics. Dr. Doom, on the other hand, is all over the place. He's a furry white creature with enormous round ears, four arms and four legs, and more. Web Original Most of the characters in Homestar Runner .

STRONG BAD: I was this close to finding out whether or not you were part elephant or part hippo or something. Most often lampshaded with "The Cheat", who resembles a cross between a Pikachu, an anvil, and a block of cheese. Apparently he is a "The Cheat". Yes, "The" is part of his species name. Most characters from Rice Boy and Order of Tales . Vatsy the catlike character of Vatsy And Bruno is a borderline case. JubJubs, Kikos, Chias, Kacheeks, and Acaras in Neopets . According to Amoridere, Toki's species started out this way, as she couldn't decide what to call it, until, when she was typing in "Eirin" , she had misspelled it as "Erin" so she settled on that, pronouncing it "Ee-RIHN". In Don't Hug Me I'm Scared , Sketchbook is a notepad, Duck Guy's a bird, Yellow Guy's a human, and Tony is a clock, but... what is Red Guy supposed to be again? A squid? Spaghetti man? Cthulhumanoid ?

Just a red human with a stringy beard? It's hard to tell. Becky indicated that Red Guy is a personification of spaghetti on her Instagram . Western Animation The Warners in Animaniacs . Although often referred to as "puppy-children," they insist that they aren't puppies. They even have a song about it. The page quote is what starts the Warners singing about what they are. In case you're wondering, they're cute! Animaniacs creator Tom Ruegger confirmed in an interview that their species is Cartoonus characterus . During the production process, they started out as ducks. But everyone thought they looked too much like three miniature versions of Plucky Duck from Tiny Toon Adventures . So they added red noses, doggy ears, and kitty cat tails. Bosko and Honey from Tiny Toon Adventures , who were antecedents to the Warners of Animaniacs . He's a living blot of ink as shown in his premier "Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid", and was vague enough that the creators were asked, at least once, what he was supposed to be. They look like either dogs, cats, or rabbits.

The Tiny Toon Adventures redesign came about because the original design of Bosko and Honey owed a great deal to blackface caricature — when the characters' creators transferred to MGM, they were redesigned ◊ to look unmistakably like caricatured black children. Redesigning the characters to resemble the Warners was a less problematic option. ◊ Bobcats (which have similar cheek tufts) had bred with housecats, so Gideon might be a Lynx/Housecat mix. The Snarfs from Thunder Cats are a species of intelligent cat-like creatures that are native to the planet Thundera. Bravestarr 's jurisdiction, the planet New Texas, is inhabited by little things called Prairie People...basically Snarfs with cowboy clothes. Fuzzy Snuggums from Spliced as his name suggests exists purely to be cute and the resident Chew Toy . However, what he is on an island of Mix-and-Match Critters isn't ever explained. Peri's species is never revealed either. He has some caterpillar DNA though (one episode had him going into a cocoon and coming out with butterfly wings. The people of Miseryville in Jimmy Two-Shoes .

They have every strange body trope you can imagine, and they're all different. Considering the setting , it's likely that they're supposed to be demons, in keeping with the portrayal of angels as totally unrecognizable in The Bible . The characters in Out There are pretty inhuman what with their clawed handstubs, round black noses and oddly coloured skin/fur but it's unclear what they are exactly as they never actually address this and refer to themselves as human. Even Chad's family are a different indeterminate species to the rest of the cast and resemble rodents of some kind but again, this isn't questioned and is more a source of Furry Confusion for the audience than anything. Keswick from T.U.F.F. Puppy is of a species that even the other members of T.U.F.F. can't name, though it's sometimes mentioned that Keswick is also the name of his species .

Worth mentioning is his bizarre life cycle: his adult stage is a marsupial-like form with webbed feet, his adolescent stage is the same except with a reptilian tail that breaks off to become another Keswick that will fight the other to the death, his child stage is a platypus that shoots barbs out of its mouth, his neonatal stage is a tadpole, and his senior stage is a jellyfish. Alfe from The Problem Solverz . He's supposed to be part man, part dog, and part anteater, but he's basically a giant brown thing with a long nose. Denver the Last Dinosaur is fairly ambiguous, he does have some dinosaur in him and of course some typical Funny Animal elements as you might expect but a whole bunch of dragon-like elements to his design make him a very odd looking dino (at least to our knowledge). The titular Wander of Wander over Yonder , who looks sort of like a fuzzy brown sock with eyes, a mouth, and limbs. The producer's call him an "orange hairy spoon". Technically, however, he and all the other members of the cast are aliens. Mr Sunshine from CatDog .

He's a green, humanoid looking man with a tail in a world where Funny Animals and Civilized Animals are the norm. Fans often believe him to be a shell-less turtle, sloth, or monkey. Imaginary friends in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends are anything children can think up. Many are Funny Animals , Mix-and-Match Critters , or Animate Inanimate Objects , but still others don't bear any clear resemblance to any creature in real life. Among the main cast, Bloo is a blue rectangle with a semi-circle on top, a face, and apparently retractable arms while Wilt is a super-tall red humanoid with a paint smear-shaped face and eyes on stalks. While most of the characters on the show Toot & Puddle avoid this, Commander Betty from the story "Astronaut Camp" falls into this trope. On one hand, she's most likely an alligator given the association with Florida where the episode takes place. On the other hand, her design doesn't look much like an alligator and some fans even think she resembles a strangely colored pike with arms and legs instead. The three main characters of The Presentators are this.

They resemble somewhat indistinct shapes with stick-thin arms and necks, along with hands of varying sizes. Notably, Stefan's face is shaped differently from his two co-presenters, having a noticeable (and asymmetrical) chin, while Dan and Brian have vaguely square-shaped heads and mouths right at the bottom. Since they're standing behind a table the entire time, we never get to see their lower bodies. The main character in "Moom" which is currently the second animated short by Tonko House pretty much resembles a Cheburashka but much cuter. Other The Addams Family | Addams Family Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia The Addams Family is a group of fictional characters created by American cartoonist Charles Addams . Addams Family characters include Gomez , Morticia , Uncle Fester , Lurch , Grandmama , Wednesday and Pugsley . The Addamses are a satirical inversion of the ideal American family; an eccentric, wealthy clan who delight in the macabre and are unaware that people find them bizarre or frightening. They originally appeared as a series of single panel cartoons, published in The New Yorker between 1938 and Addams's 1988 death.

They have since been adapted to other media, including television series (both live action and animated), films, video games, and a musical . Contents Addams's original cartoons were one-panel gags. The characters were undeveloped and unnamed until later versions. “ Gomez and Pugsley are enthusiastic. Morticia is even in disposition, muted, witty, sometimes deadly. Grandma Frump is foolishly good-natured. Wednesday is her mother's daughter. A closely knit family, the real head being Morticia—although each of the others is a definite character — except for Grandma, who is easily led. Many of the troubles they have as a family are due to Grandma’s fumbling, weak character. The house is a wreck, of course, but this is a house-proud family just the same and every trap door is in good repair. Money is no problem. [1] ” — Charles Addams The family appears to be a single surviving branch of the Addams clan. Many other "Addams families" exist all over the world. According to the film version, the family credo is, Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc (pseudo-Latin: "We gladly feast on those who would subdue us").

Charles Addams was first inspired by his home town of Westfield, New Jersey, an area full of ornate Victorian mansions and archaic graveyards. [2] They live in a gloomy mansion adjacent to a cemetery and a swamp at 0001 Cemetery Lane. In The New Addams Family, the address was changed to 1313 Cemetery Lane. [3] In the Addams Family musical , first shown in Chicago in 2009, the house is located in Central Park. [4] Although they share macabre interests, the Addamses are not evil. They are a close-knit extended family. Morticia is an exemplary mother, and she and Gomez remain passionate towards each other. She calls him "Bubele", [5] to which he responds by kissing her arms, behavior Morticia can also provoke by speaking a few words in French (the meaning is not important — any French will do). The parents are supportive of their children. The family is friendly and hospitable to visitors, in some cases willing to donate large sums of money to causes, despite the visitors' horror at the Addams's peculiar lifestyle.

Addams Family characters Main article: Gomez Addams Gomez Addams was the master of the Addams household and the Addams patriarch, married to Morticia and the father of Wednesday and Pugsley . In the 60's sitcom, he was Grandmama's son, but this was retconned in the 1991 film, and he became Grandmama's son-in-law instead, staying true to the comics. Also retconned in the films, he became the younger brother of Fester instead of his nephew-in-law. In the original cartoons in the New Yorker, he appeared tubby, snub-nosed and with a receding chin. In the 1960s television series, Gomez was portrayed as a naive, handsome, and successful man, although with a childlike, eccentric enthusiasm for everything he did. For instance, his personal portrait depicted him as standing gleefully on his head. Though a peaceful man, he was known to be well-versed in many types of combat; he and Morticia fenced with foils sometimes. Gomez professed endless love for his wife, Morticia.

He had studied to be a lawyer, but rarely practiced, one of the running jokes being that he took great pride in losing his cases. He was also pleased with the fact that his law class had voted him the man "Least Likely to Pass the Bar". Gomez was depicted as extremely wealthy, through inheritance and extensive investments, but he seemed to have little regard for money. Although he invested in the stock market, to the point where there was a ticker tape machine in the livingroom, he played the market primarily to lose, or else invested in odd schemes that inadvertently paid off big (swamp land found to have oil under it, etc.). One novel claimed Gomez became wealthy through his ghoulish sense of humour, when he discovered it was possible to make a killing in the stock market. Despite his macabre sense of humour, he was extremely generous, and would go out of his way to help those whom he considered friends. Gomez is of Castilian origin, loved to smoke cigars, and would play destructively with his model trains. Of the names which Charles Addams suggested for the family, "Gomez" was the only one that was not "ghoulish" (in the manner of Morticia or Fester).

When asked why he suggested the name Gomez for the character, Addams replied that he "thought he [the character] had a bit of Spanish blood in him." However, Addams had trouble deciding whether the character should be Spanish or Italian. He decided that if he were Spanish he should be called "Gomez", but if Italian he would be "Repelli" (even though Gomez and Repelli are actually surnames). The final choice of first name was left up to actor John Astin . [6] Gomez was typically seen wearing conservative businesswear long out of fashion, such as pinstripe suits and spats. Morticia Main article: Morticia Addams Morticia Addams (née Frump) was the matriarch of the Addams Family, a slim woman with pale skin, clad in a skin-tight black hobble gown with octopuslike tendrils at the hem. Certain sources suggested she may be some kind of vampire. She adored her husband, Gomez, as deeply as he did her. Pugsley and Wednesday Main article: Pugsley Addams Gomez and Morticia had two children, a son called Pugsley and a daughter called Wednesday .

Wednesday was said to have been named after the phrase, "Wednesday's child is full of woe," from the poem Monday's Child. Her middle name, Friday, corresponds to the 1887 version of the poem. In the television show she was a sweet-natured, innocent, happy child, largely concerned with her fearsome pet spiders. A favorite toy was her Marie Antoinette doll, which Pugsley had guillotined. The movies gave Wednesday a much more serious and mature personality with a deadpan wit and a morbid fascination with trying to physically harm, or possibly murder, her brother (she was seen strapping him into an electric chair, for example, and preparing to pull the switch); she was apparently often successful, but Pugsley never died. Like most members of the family, he seemed to be inhumanly resilient. For his part, Pugsley was largely oblivious of the harm his sister tried to inflict on him, or an enthusiastic supporter of it, viewing all attempts as fun and games. In his first incarnation in the New Yorker cartoons, Pugsley was depicted as a diabolical, malevolent boy-next-door.

In the television series, he was a devoted older brother and an inventive and mechanical genius. In the movies he lost his intelligence and independence, and became Wednesday's sidekick and younger brother, cheerfully helping her in her evil deeds. In the animated series, Wednesday became a happy and somewhat optimistic child, while retaining her sophisticated manner from the movies, and Pugsley became a genius at chemistry — especially explosives — and machines, though his intelligence seemed undeveloped at times. The children appeared to be home-taught, receiving all the education they required from Grandmama or Uncle Fester. An attempt to enroll them in the local elementary school did not work out initially, but in later episodes of the television series, they are depicted as attending it. In the first movie, the children attended an elementary school and Wednesday was praised for her performance. Both children performed in school plays with their uncle's help. In the second movie, they are on summer vacation from school. In the stage musical, Wednesday was aged to about 18 years old, while Pugsley was kept as a young child. Uncle Fester Main article: Uncle Fester Fester is a bald, barrel-shaped man with dark, sunken eyes and a devilish grin.

He seemed to carry an electrical charge, as he could illuminate a light bulb by sticking it in his mouth. In the original television series, Fester was Morticia's uncle. In the 1991 film and all subsequent animated and film media, Fester was Gomez's older brother. The character played a central role in both of the first two feature films. In The Addams Family, Fester was reunited with the other Addamses after 25 years apart, while The Addams Family Values focused on his relationship with Deborah "Debbie" Jellinsky. Grandmama Main article: Grandmama Not to be confused with Granny Frump Grandmama is Gomez's mother, and is also a witch who deals in potions, spells, hexes, and even fortune-telling. Her trademarks were her shawl and grey, frizzy hair. The 2010 Broadway musical version of The Addams Family poked fun at the inconsistencies of Grandmama's origins. In one scene, Morticia and Gomez both revealed that each believed she is the other's mother. People didn't know about her ghost son, named Eduardo. Thing T.

Thing Main article: Thing Another member of the family is the disembodied hand named " Thing ". Thing was Gomez's friend since childhood. He appeared out of ubiquitous boxes or other convenient containers throughout the house. He communicated with the Addamses with a Morse-like alphabet, sign language, writing, and knocking on wood. In the movies and The New Addams Family, Thing was a fully mobile hand, cleanly severed just below the wrist (although no muscle or bone was exposed). He lived in an upstairs closet made up as a house-within-a-house, though he was also shown to reside in a cigar box. In the original television series, Thing was generally played by Ted Cassidy (the actor who also played Lurch). He was usually a right hand, but Cassidy occasionally used his left, "just to see if anyone noticed". [7] Lurch Main article: Lurch In addition to Thing, the Addams family also had a tall, ghoulish manservant named Lurch . Lurch served as a shambling, gravelly-voiced butler, vaguely resembling Frankenstein's Monster although he is a considerable "jack of all trades".

He tried to help around the house, although occasionally he botched tasks due to his great size and strength, but is otherwise considered quite a catch by the Addamses for his skill at more personal tasks, such as waxing Uncle Fester's head and amusing the children (to whom he was deeply devoted). Surprisingly, he was often seen playing the harpsichord and organ with a great degree of skill and somewhat uncharacteristic enthusiasm. In Addams Family Reunion , Gomez stated that Lurch is not really an Addams, and Morticia replies that Lurch has parts of many families, and that he has the heart of an Addams. In one episode of the 1960s television series, Lurch's mother, played by actress Ellen Corby , came to visit; she was a short, overbearing little old lady. Lurch, too, had a level of invulnerability; in Addams Family Values, a 20-pound cannonball is dropped from the top of the Addams mansion, landing directly on his head, seemingly with no ill effect. In the original comics, Lurch did not speak.

In the sitcom, he was capable of speech; beckoned by the pull of a noose-shaped rope which sounded a thunderous gong, he would answer with a signature monotone, brusque and basso profundo, "You rang?" This was due to actor Ted Cassidy ad-libbing the line while rehearsing a scene early in production of the original TV show. The producers liked it so much that Lurch then became a speaking role. In the theatrical movies, Lurch never spoke, using only grunts, sighs, or simple gesticulations. The New Addams Family returned to the original sitcom style, right down to the noose that rang a gong. In it, Lurch also seemed a little more polite than his earlier counterparts. Cousin Itt Main article: Cousin Itt Cousin Itt (spelled as "Cousin It" in the movies and the pinball game), who frequently visited the family, was short-statured and had long hair that covered his entire body from scalp to floor. He was known to speak in a high-pitched nonsensical gibberish that only the family seemed to understand.

In the second animated series, Itt was a super-spy for the U.S. government. He fell in love with Margaret Alford and married her after her husband, Tully , was disposed of by the Addams children. [8] He and Margaret have a child named "What" (from the obstetrician's reaction). [9] Pets In the sitcom, references were made to an innumerable collection of bizarre and unconventional creatures such as hawks, bats, and alligators, although there were a handful with some consistency throughout the various media which the characters have subsequently appeared in. Kitty Kat is the family lion, and can be seen in several 1960s television episodes roaming around the house. (Though not seen in the 1991 film, Gomez can be heard shouting 'Down, Kitty!' while going to the vault to pay Tully, while a lion's roar can be heard.) The entire family regarded Kitty Kat as they would an average housecat, and seemed flummoxed at the notion that Kitty Kat is in any way dangerous. Pugsley had an octopus called Aristotle , and Wednesday a large collection of spiders, with only one she mentions in particular by name, called Homer.

The family also had a pair of piranha named Tristan and Isolde, who lived in a fish tank, and a vulture named Zelda (changed to Muerto for the first film). Cleopatra is an African Strangler, a carnivorous plant, belonging to Morticia. The plant eats meatballs made of yak and other tasty meats specially prepared, and (more often than not) spoon-fed to her. In a season 1 episode, "The Addams Family Meets the V.I.P.'s", Gomez stated that Cleopatra is only 3 years old. At another point in the series, however, it's said that Morticia had Cleopatra before she and Gomez married, having grown her from a seedling. In the musical , the family had a pet giant squid named Bernice, that, one night, crawled up from the toilet. She lived in the sewers beneath the house, and appeared in the grotto. Only her tentacles were shown. Adaptations Main article: The Addams Family (TV Series) In 1964, the ABC-TV network created The Addams Family television series based on Addams's cartoon characters.

The series was shot in black-and-white and aired for two seasons in 64 half-hour episodes (September 18, 1964 – September 2, 1966). During the original television run of the series, The New Yorker editor William Shawn refused to publish any Addams Family cartoons, though he continued to publish other Charles Addams cartoons. Shawn regarded his magazine as targeting a more refined readership, and did not want it associated with characters who could be seen on television by just anybody. After Shawn's 1987 retirement, the characters were welcomed back to The New Yorker. Main article: Wednesday Is Missing The Addams Family's first animated appearance was on the third episode of Hanna-Barbera's The New Scooby-Doo Movies, " Wednesday Is Missing " (a.k.a. "Scooby-Doo Meets the Addams Family"), which first aired on CBS Saturday morning September 23, 1972. Four of the original cast ( John Astin , Carolyn Jones , Jackie Coogan , and Ted Cassidy ) returned for the special which involved the Addamses in a mystery with the Scooby-Doo gang.

The Addams Family characters were drawn to the specifications of the original Charles Addams cartoons. After the episode aired, fans wanted more animated adventures featuring the Addamses, and Hanna-Barbera obliged. Main article: The Addams Family (animated 1992) The remake series ran on Saturday mornings from 1992–1993 on ABC after producers realized the success of the 1991 Addams Family movie. This series returned to the familiar format of the original series, with the Addams Family facing their sitcom situations at home. John Astin returned to the role of Gomez, and celebrities Rip Taylor and Carol Channing took over the roles of Fester and Granny, respectively, while veteran voice actors Jim Cummings , Debi Derryberry , Jeannie Elias and Pat Fraley did the voices of Lurch, Wednesday, Pugsley and Cousin Itt. New artistic models of the characters were used for this series, though still having a passing resemblance to the original cartoons. Two seasons were produced, with the third year containing reruns.

Oddly in this series, Wednesday maintained her macabre, brooding attitude from the Addams Family movies, but her facial expressions and body language conveyed the happy-go-lucky, fun attitude of her portrayal in the original television show. An altered version of the original Vic Mizzy theme song was used for the opening. Main article: The New Addams Family The New Addams Family was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, and ran for 65 episodes during the 1998–1999 season on the then newly-launched Fox Family Channel. Many storylines from the original series were reworked for this new series, incorporating more modern elements and jokes. John Astin returned to the franchise in some episodes of this series, albeit as "Grandpapa" Addams (Gomez's grandfather, a character introduced in Addams Family Reunion).

Pubert's absence in the new series (and possibly Addams Family Reunion) was explained in an early episode when Wednesday mentioned that "There were three of us, but Pugsley ate the little one." The cast included Glenn Taranto as Gomez Addams, Ellie Harvie as Morticia, Michael Roberds as Fester, Brody Smith as Pugsley, Nicole Fugere (the only cast member from Addams Family Reunion to return) as Wednesday, John DeSantis as Lurch, Betty Phillips as Grandmama and Steven Fox as Thing. Films Main article: The Addams Family (1991) In the 1990s, Orion Pictures (which by then had inherited the rights to the series) developed a film version, The Addams Family (recorded on October 30-31, 1989 and released on November 22, 1991). Due to the studio's financial troubles at the time, Orion sold the US rights to the film to Paramount Pictures.

Main article: Addams Family Values Upon the last film's success, a sequel followed: Addams Family Values (released on November 19, 1993, with worldwide distribution by Paramount). Loosened content restrictions allowed the films to use far more grotesque humor that strove to keep the original spirit of the Addams cartoons (in fact, several gags were lifted straight from the single panel cartoons). Main article: Addams Family Reunion Another film, Addams Family Reunion , was released direct-to-video on September 22, 1998, this time by Warner Bros. through its video division. It has no relation to the Paramount movies, being in fact a full-length pilot for a second live-action television version, The New Addams Family, produced and shot in Canada. The third movie's Gomez, played by Tim Curry , follows the style of Raúl Juliá, while the new sitcom's Gomez, played by Glenn Taranto , is played in the style of John Astin, who had played the character in the 1960s. Spin-offs Two animated television spin-offs have been produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Mr. & Mrs. J.

Evil Scientist , a family of fictional characters inspired by The Addams Family appeared on the Snagglepuss and Snooper and Blabber animated television series beginning in 1959 and starred in their own comic book. During the first season of the 1960s The Addams Family television show, a Stone Age version of the Addams Family called The Gruesomes moved next door to The Flintstones . Video games Main article: The Addams Family (video game series) Five video games released from 1989 to 1994 were based on The Addams Family. Fester's Quest (1989) was a top-down shooter that featured Uncle Fester saving the world from an alien invasion. In 1992, two versions of The Addams Family were released by Ocean Software based on the 1991 Movie; an 8-Bit version for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear, ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, as well as a 16-Bit version released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Atari ST and Sega Mega Drive.

ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991. The games' sequel, The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993), also by Ocean Software, was based on the ABC animated series and was released for NES, SNES and Game Boy (although the later two were just 8-bit remakes of the first SNES game, swapping Pugsley and Gomez's roles). Addams Family Values (1994) by Ocean was based on the movie's sequel and returned to the style of gameplay seen in Fester's Quest. A Game Boy Color game was released in the 1990s for promotion of The New Addams Family. The game was simply titled The New Addams Family Series . In this game, the Addams mansion had been bought by a fictional company called "Funnyday" that wanted to tear down the house and surrounding grounds to make room for an amusement park. Pinball A pinball game by Midway (under the Bally Technologies label) was released in 1992 shortly after the movie. It is the best-selling pinball game of all time.

[11] Books Main article: Books There are many books associated with The Addams Family. Many of Charles Addams' original cartoons from The New Yorker were collected into books. Novels have been written about the Family. The television and film productions have been featured in many books and magazines, and spoofed in others. Advertising In 1994, the actors cast as the Addamses in the first two films (sans the recently-deceased Raúl Juliá) were in several Japanese television spots for the Honda Odyssey. [12] The Addamses—most prominently Gomez (for whom a voice actor was used to impersonate Juliá while footage from Addams Family Values was seen) and Morticia—are seen speaking Japanese. [13] In 2007 and 2008, the Addams Family appeared as M&Ms in an advertising campaign for M&Ms Dark Chocolate. [14] Musicals Main article: The Addams Family (musical) In May 2007, it was announced that a musical inspired by The Addams Family was being developed for the Broadway stage.

Broadway veterans Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice wrote the |book, and Andrew Lippa wrote the score. Julian Crouch and Phelim McDermott (Improbable Theater founders) directed and designed the production, with choreography by Sergio Trujillo. [15] A workshop and private industry presentation was held August 4–8, 2008. Featured in the cast were Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia, Annaleigh Ashford as Wednesday, and Nathan Lane as Gomez. In addition, Kevin Chamberlin played Fester and Zachary James played Lurch. The musical opened in previews at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on Broadway on March 8, 2010, with an official opening on April 8, [16] after an out-of-town tryout in Chicago at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts from November 13, 2009 to January 10, 2010.

[17] [18] The cast includes Lane as Gomez, Neuwirth as Morticia, Terrence Mann as Mal Beineke, Carolee Carmello as Alice Beineke, Chamberlin as Uncle Fester, Jackie Hoffman as Grandmama, Zachary James as Lurch, Krysta Rodriguez as Wednesday, and Wesley Taylor as Wednesday's love interest, Lucas Beineke. [19] Cast

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